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For the past three decades, women’s studies has emerged as a legitimate discipline after the demand that academia be more inclusive of women’s issues. Women’s studies is interdisciplinary in scope and utilizes theory in an attempt to analyze the conditions of women’s lives by putting women at the center of inquiry and by asking questions about privilege and oppression, and the outcomes of power and domination.
Feminists around the world have addressed their concern about genital surgeries imposed on women and girls and yet hardly any analysis of male circumcision has been addressed. <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wisdom |first=Travis |author-link= |etal=no |title=Questioning Circumcisionism: Feminism, Gender Equity, and Human Rights |trans-title= |language= |journal=Righting Wrongs: A Journal of Human Rights. |location= |date=2012-05 |volume=2 |issue=1-32 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Travis_Wisdom/publication/267687481_Questioning_Circumcisionism_Feminism_Gender_Equity_and_Human_Rights/links/5b54896645851507a7bd4a6d/Questioning-Circumcisionism-Feminism-Gender-Equity-and-Human-Rights.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=}}</ref> An “intactivist” movement, which criticizes all forms of genital cutting, has substantially increased over the past thirty years. While attempts have been made to address the intellectual disconnect between female and male circumcision, feminists have focused solely on the intense opposition to female circumcision, and left the issue of male circumcision to uncharted terrain, however Article 3 of the UDHR proclaims:
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Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.<ref name="udhr1948" />